django1/docs/ref/contrib/postgres/expressions.txt

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PostgreSQL specific query expressions
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.. module:: django.contrib.postgres.expressions
:synopsis: PostgreSQL specific query expressions
These expressions are available from the
``django.contrib.postgres.expressions`` module.
``ArraySubquery()`` expressions
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.. class:: ArraySubquery(queryset)
.. versionadded:: 4.0
``ArraySubquery`` is a :class:`~django.db.models.Subquery` that uses the
PostgreSQL ``ARRAY`` constructor to build a list of values from the queryset,
which must use :meth:`.QuerySet.values` to return only a single column.
This class differs from :class:`~django.contrib.postgres.aggregates.ArrayAgg`
in the way that it does not act as an aggregate function and does not require
an SQL ``GROUP BY`` clause to build the list of values.
For example, if you want to annotate all related books to an author as JSON
objects::
>>> from django.db.models import OuterRef
>>> from django.db.models.functions import JSONObject
>>> from django.contrib.postgres.expressions import ArraySubquery
>>> books = Book.objects.filter(author=OuterRef('pk')).values(
... json=JSONObject(title='title', pages='pages')
... )
>>> author = Author.objects.annotate(books=ArraySubquery(books)).first()
>>> author.books
[{'title': 'Solaris', 'pages': 204}, {'title': 'The Cyberiad', 'pages': 295}]